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Easy video playback in Linux

by Kenneth Kalmer on March 6, 2005

Just sharing a quick thought really. I must admit that I thought it would be a real effort to get AVI files to play in Linux, especially DivX. DVD’s sounded even more unrealistic. To my surprise I discovered two applications (…)

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Fedora Core can’t do anything!?!

by Kenneth Kalmer on March 3, 2005

Wrong! I’ve heard so many people complain about Fedora Core not being able to play MP3′s, or show Flash animations, and even JAVA not working correctly. Is it so difficult to just Google for some solutions? On the topic of (…)

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Suspicion Breeds Confidence

by Kenneth Kalmer on March 1, 2005

CIRT.net is website providing some interesting tools to help webmasters secure their servers and their websites. Best of all it’s GPL! Have a look at Nikto. From the website: Nikto is an Open Source (GPL) web server scanner which performs (…)

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The new internet, GMail & Mailman

by Kenneth Kalmer on February 8, 2005

This may sound weird, but give it a shot. It’s another example of how open source software can improve your life, indirectly… Let me explain. What’s GMail? Visit http://gmail.google.com for more accurate information as things tend to change quite frequently (…)

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